Mets outfielder Starling Marte has been diagnosed with a partial non-displaced fracture of the middle finger on his right hand, the team informed reporters (including Steve Gelbs of SNY). The club currently considers him day-to-day, although it remains to be seen if he’ll eventually require a stint on the injured list.
Marte suffered the injury last night, when he was hit on the hand by a 96 MPH fastball from Pittsburgh’s Mitch Keller. He came out of the game a couple innings later, and he sat out today’s doubleheader. The Mets haven’t provided a timetable as to when they expect Marte to be ready for game action, although it’s seemingly encouraging they’re not immediately placing him on the injured list. The expansion of active rosters in September from 26 to 28 players gives the Mets a bit more leeway to give Marte a few days, particularly with an off day tomorrow to reassess his condition.
Signed to a four-year, $78MM deal over the winter, Marte has had an All-Star first season in Queens. He’s hitting .292/.347/.468 through 505 trips to the plate, on par with the best offensive seasons of his career. The star outfielder has connected on 16 homers, 24 doubles and five triples. He’s chipped in 18 stolen bases (albeit with nine caught stealings) and served as the club’s primary right fielder and #2 hitter.
The Mets turned to Tyler Naquin in right field today, and he’d presumably pick up the majority of playing time if Marte’s forced out of action. The lefty-hitting Naquin can split time with the right-handed Darin Ruf in the corner opposite Mark Canha, with Brandon Nimmo continuing to man center field.
New York has been hit with a couple notable injury situations in recent days. They placed Max Scherzer on the 15-day injured list with side fatigue this morning. At 87-51, the Mets are a lock to make the playoffs, but they’re in a tight NL East battle with the defending World Series champions. New York holds a half-game lead on the Braves in a race for the division title and accompanying first-round bye.
The inevitable Mets collapse continues.
They’re going to win 100 games. Hardly a collapse.
There goes that ringworm again. Mask up.
Hate to see that hes gone through a lot the last few years
A lot of broken fingers this season…
The Mets are crapping out!
Yes, they just won a doubleheader —> 5-1 and 10-0.
Roster wise
Beat the Pirates- congratueffinglations.
Gee……
When the Pirates beat them the other day that sure counted.
LOL
The score matters less due to the strength of competition. 10-0 last night (I was there) was depressing. My friend pointed out that the Crawfords and Grays of old must be rolling in their graves with how bad of baseball is being played in their city
It’s the Pirates, who cares?
I think the standings care
Pirates have a winning record against the Dodgers this year.
I bet the Braves care
Wow. You’re good at this.
Losing scherzer and marte,,? Are you mocking me?
Honestly hope he is fully healthy when they come play Braves in Atlanta.
Going to be an awesome series.
Let’s hope that it’s not too serious and that Marte will be back in time for the playoffs.
Keller should be immediately suspended and remain so for the same length of time that Marte is unable to compete at the MLB level. It is long past the time to discipline both the team and pitcher who hits and injures a batter on the opposing team. The nature of damage to the team whose batter is injured without corresponding loss on the other team is just a plain inequity. As far as comments about injury sustained from a pitched ball being “just part of the game’ is antiquated lunacy.
The Tyler Naquin acquisition seems better now that a starting OF is on the shelf.
While Naquin has been hot for the two games he’s replaced Marte, he’s generally been pretty bad at the plate since the Mets got him. Hopefully Marte won’t be gone long. Mets need him for the stretch run
After reading this, I am missing what is a partial non-displaced finger fracture exactly.
Will Marte be able to play through this, hit and play RF, throw, etc.?
What will be the impact on the Mets roster going forward. Does he require surgery or an IL stint for it to heal itself? There are missing elements to this report or perhaps someone can enlighten me here.
No surprise. The Mets are an old team getting a surprising amount of work out of the older and often-injured players they’re playing into the ground, and they just lost 2 of those guys for indefinite periods.
What did you expect? They spent big on frontline players, paid Max TWICE what they would have paid for, say, Robbie Ray and Rodon, combined, have a weak bench, and will have to get very lucky with the likes of Peterson and T Williams from here on out to stay ahead of the Braves (forecast: they won’t, schedule be damned).
The Mets weren’t willing to part with top prospects for top players and this the price they are paying now. You hope your farm system can produce players to replace them.Perhaps its a lesson learned or not.